83: He went into seclusion for a month and emerged at his peak!
780 evolution value!
Li Qing's mind was shaken by the sight.
One must know that the Third Tier Fierce Beast, the Iron-Toothed Crocodile, which he had hunted before, only provided a little over 200 evolution value.
This Fourth-tier Ferocious Beast had directly provided 780 points!
And that wasn't all!
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Li Qing did not hesitate to begin devouring the massive flesh of the Fourth-tier Ferocious Beast!
The Earth Spirit Turtle opened its massive maw and began a gluttonous feast on the riverbed, consuming the enormous carcass of the Monoceros Salamander.
The flesh and blood of a Late Stage Fourth-tier Ferocious Beast contained such incredibly pure energy!
Every mouthful of flesh swallowed turned into a surging current of heat that exploded within the Earth Spirit Turtle's body, then rapidly transformed into the purest evolution value.
【Devoured the flesh of the Late Stage Fourth-tier Ferocious Beast "Monoceros Salamander", providing a total of 240 evolution value!】
Another notification that made Li Qing's breath hitch.
240 points!
Good heavens, this evolution value is truly not low.
Adding the 780 points from the kill, this single Monoceros Salamander alone had brought him a terrifying evolution value of over 1000 points!
Li Qing immediately checked his attribute panel.
【evolution value: 11325 / 50000】
Not bad.
Today's harvest is truly substantial!
Li Qing looked at the ferocious beast essence blood of the Fourth-tier Ferocious Beast before him.
He swallowed it in one gulp.
Instantly, an unprecedented and incredibly pure source of life energy surged frantically into Li Qing's main body through the feedback!
Inside the small courtyard in the south of the city.
Sitting cross-legged, Li Qing's body suddenly shuddered.
The bones throughout his body emitted a series of crackling pops, and his muscles bulged and solidified at a speed visible to the naked eye.
His original Realm was forcibly broken through its shackles at this moment!
His blood and Qi were like mercury, coursing like thunder!
The Giant Spirit Body Tempering Art began to circulate on its own, its speed more than ten times faster than before!
His height shot up once again at this moment.
Late Stage Body Refining Realm!
Only one step away from reaching the Peak!
Li Qing snapped his eyes open, a sharp light flashing within them.
He slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air; this breath actually shot out like a sharp arrow, piercing a small hole through the wooden table in front of him.
"Late Stage Body Refining Realm!"
Li Qing stood up, feeling the surging power within his body.
Continue!
Before he knew it, a month had passed.
During this month, he spent all his time on his Cultivate.
Currently, in the courtyard in the south of the city.
Li Qing sat cross-legged on the bed, motionless like a stone statue.
Inside his body, however, an earth-shaking transformation was taking place.
The life source energy contained within that Late Stage Fourth-tier ferocious beast essence blood obtained from the Monoceros Salamander had long since been completely absorbed.
But the lingering resonance of that energy still acted like the gentlest stream, constantly washing over and nourishing every corner of his body.
In addition, over this past month, he had unhesitatingly consumed a large number of Cultivate Medicinal Pills sent from the City Lord's Mansion.
These resources, which would be enough to make ordinary Martial Artists fight to the death in the outside world, were swallowed by him like jellybeans.
The medicinal power transformed into rolling blood and Qi, merging with the pure energy fed back from his Clone, forming a vast torrent.
Driven by this energy, the Giant Spirit Body Tempering Art had already broken through the shackles of the second layer and was launching an assault on the third layer.
After a month, pushed by resources, his martial Dao Realm was still a bit behind compared to a Genius.
But the Giant Spirit Body Tempering Art was progressing rapidly.
His blood and Qi were no longer coursing like thunder as before, but began to gradually turn inward and condense.
If his previous blood and Qi were a boiling river, then now, they were transforming toward the state of liquid mercury.
Viscous, heavy, and containing terrifying explosive power.
This was the manifestation of blood and Qi being tempered to the extreme.
It was also the hallmark of the Peak Body Refining Realm!
"Crack!"
A faint, barely audible sound emanated from Li Qing's spinal column.
It was as if an invisible shackle had been completely snapped at this moment!
Boom!
A power even more majestic and solidified than the Late Stage Body Refining Realm suddenly Awakened from the depths of his limbs and bones!
The muscles, bones, and skin throughout his body simultaneously emitted a subtle hum, as if cheering and jumping for joy.
Every inch of muscle was filled with explosive power.
Every bone was as hard as hundred-tempered steel.
Every inch of skin became incomparably tough; ordinary swords and sabers would find it difficult to break through his defense!
Peak Body Refining Realm!
It was done!
Li Qing slowly opened his eyes, and the light in the room seemed to dim for a moment.
He didn't get up, but just quietly felt the changes within his body.
His power had once again achieved a qualitative leap.
He simply brought his five fingers together and clenched them into a fist.
"Vroom—"
The air around his fist actually emitted a slight vibrating sound from being compressed by this internal power.
"Six thousand catties..."
Li Qing silently recited this number in his heart.
This was the pure power he could explode with at this moment, relying solely on his Physical Body!
Six thousand catties of Great Strength!
If he added his Clone talent, the Strength of One Dragon.
His power had broken through one hundred and twenty thousand catties!
In the Body Refining Realm, this was a legendary number.
Ordinary Meridian Opening Martial Artists, even if they Cultivate to the Peak, being able to have seventy thousand catties of Great Strength would already mean they were exceptionally gifted.
And he had nearly doubled that!
"The path of Body Refining has reached its end here."
Li Qing understood in his heart.
Further ahead was a completely new world—the Condensing Essence Realm!
Drawing the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi into the body, condensing a Yuan power cyclone within the Dantian, and from then on becoming transcendent, where every movement possesses great power.
However, he was in no hurry.
The Foundation is the root of everything.
With a thought, he brought up his attribute panel.
【Host: Li Qing】
【Age: 15】
【Cultivation: Peak Body Refining Realm】
【Clone: Earth Spirit Turtle (High-tier Spirit Beast)】
【Talent】
【Water Respiration: Can breathe underwater for ten double-hours】
【Mysterious Armor: Can withstand most attacks from low and mid-tier Martial Artists】
【Longevity: 2000 years】
【Mystic Water Manipulation: Can freely control a medium-sized body of water, condensing water into walls and gathering flows into whirlpools.】
【Great Strength: Strength of One Dragon】
【Beginner Domination: Can exert mental deterrence and give simple commands to beasts of a lower tier than oneself, up to ten Vicious Beasts】
【Earth Vein Sensing: Can trigger small-scale earth veins to change local terrain】
【evolution value: 24580/50000 (When evolution value is full, evolution can be initiated)】
In one month, the evolution value had grown from just over ten thousand to over twenty-four thousand now.
This speed couldn't be called fast, but it certainly wasn't slow either.
Within this hundred-mile Great River, he was already the undisputed absolute overlord.
The Vicious Beasts in the Great River had decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye this month.
Those ten Vicious Beast underlings he had subdued had also become the most diligent "workers."
Even if they were hunting in the river twenty-four hours a day, the prey became fewer and fewer as time passed..
Although these low-tier Vicious Beasts didn't provide much evolution value, their numbers were vast, and many small bits make a lot.
Over the course of a month, they had contributed over ten thousand evolution value.
"I'm still short by over twenty-five thousand points for the next evolution."